The point of the study is to understand why, at the precise moment, an addict decides to use. Epstein says if you ask someone about a relapse after the fact, he or she is going to have trouble recalling it accurately. "People, whether it's someone who's addicted to drugs or anyone else in the world, make up stories that sort of explain their behavior," he says. "But if you could've been monitoring them in real time, you would see that things didn't happen quite the way they remembered."

This podcast was recorded at a press briefing delivered by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long at the GEOINT Symposium 2011 in San Antonio, Texas on October 17, 2011.

Editor in chief Joe Francica sits down with U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation president Keith Masback to get his impressions on the growth prospects for the industry and for the GEOINT Symposium in general. The interview was conducted on October 18, 2011 in San Antonio, Texa.

Many college campuses have emergency telephones marked with flashing blue lights. They don't help students like Claudia Folska. She's blind. Folska is working with the city of Denver to make the area more navigable, doing things like adding a sound component to the emergency phone booths.

There are parts of Sudan too dangerous and too remote for journalists to get to—meaning they can't cover some of the human rights abuses that have plagued the country. The Satellite Sentinel Project uses, you guessed it, satellites to shed light on what's happening on the ground in Sudan. The project is, in part, the brainchild of George Clooney. (Yeah, that George Clooney.) Brooke talked with the Satellite Sentinel Project's Jonathan Hutson.

In this interview, Editor in Chief Joe Francica speaks with Al Leidner of Booz Allen Hamilton. Back in 2001, Leidner, was the director of New York City's GIS project at the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications or DoITT and the person most responsible for coordinating geospatial technology support during the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11.

"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries." This is the story of current state of the U.S. patent system and the new business models it has created. While the story if not specifically about geospatial patents, this goes no in our world, too.

In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death.

In this interview, Editor in Chief Joe Francica speaks with Nitin Gupta, vice president for business development and product marketing for Retailigence, a company Gupta describes as "powering location-based shopping" and a "data as a service" (DaaS) platform. Gupta says that the mission is to drive foot traffic into local stores. "You almost think of us as somebody on the side of the retailer that is helping them populate their digital shelves," said Gupta. Listen to this fascinating discussion that adds one more piece of the puzzle to location-based advertising.

In this podcast version of Directions OnPoint, editor in chief, Joe Francica speaks with Matt O'Connell, the CEO of GeoEye. Mr. O'Connell provides an in-depth analysis of the earth observation remote sensing market as well as a business perspective on some of the barriers to entry for U.S. satellite data providers in countries such as India and China.